The article dismisses the criticism against COBOL with an argument akin to "mathematicians use those funny symbols because they like to feel superior to everybody else."
For me, what is most important on the subject is that, even if we can't differentiate from one interpretation to another experimentally (yet), it doesn't mean they are all equally correct. Specifically in connection with general relativity, which is an open issue, the exploration of alternative interpretations of QM may lead to actual experiments differentiating one interpretation from another, effectively tuning it into a theory.
It seems that the most important conclusion of the article is that using lambdas is more error prone than using iterators. What begs the question: how many compiler errors were caused by the actual lambadas, and how many were caused by the declaration of a `std::function` variable, as induced by the authors (that besides unnecessary, is somewhat of a bad style)?